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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:17:36 PM
Israeli settlements .. Settling in
Comment: Peace settlement not for peace at all, but a time to expand settlements. If no real basic common aim between negotiating sides, negotiations are a farce. Arab and other early 1990 efforts to avoid the Gulf War were a waste, as the US had made up it's mind. Here the same. Netanyahu, Israeli and American right all want to expand Israel influence and control. Agree .. so far it looks simply a political CHARADE, to help politicians look good and to keep all sides, except the Palestinian side 'happy'.
Israeli construction in the West Bank and Gaza
Sep 27th 2010
ISRAEL’s ten-month moratorium on construction of settlements in the West Bank expired late on Sunday September 26th, and building has resumed in some parts. Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement pressure group, estimates that construction on over 2,000 dwellings could now begin or resume. Over the last two decades official statistics (which exclude East Jersualem) show that settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza has tended to intensify around the time of peace talks, as Israeli prime ministers have sought to placate right-wingers. The last freeze was brought in by Yitzhak Rabin in 1992, but from the first contained loopholes. It was formally cancelled by Binyamin Netanyahu when he was elected four years later. This in part accounts for the drop in government construction during the '90s. The shift towards private construction reflects a general trend throughout Israel, though it is less pronounced in the settlements than elsewhere.
More Daily charts .. Comment: hey, these are good, neat little comment and chart snacks, as the above, on all different subjects ..
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/display.cfm?id=7933596 ..
you guys, and interestingly Mexico, are still tops on the obesity stakes, but we are gaining.
http://www.economist.com/node/17136088
Comment: Peace settlement not for peace at all, but a time to expand settlements. If no real basic common aim between negotiating sides, negotiations are a farce. Arab and other early 1990 efforts to avoid the Gulf War were a waste, as the US had made up it's mind. Here the same. Netanyahu, Israeli and American right all want to expand Israel influence and control. Agree .. so far it looks simply a political CHARADE, to help politicians look good and to keep all sides, except the Palestinian side 'happy'.
Israeli construction in the West Bank and Gaza
Sep 27th 2010
ISRAEL’s ten-month moratorium on construction of settlements in the West Bank expired late on Sunday September 26th, and building has resumed in some parts. Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement pressure group, estimates that construction on over 2,000 dwellings could now begin or resume. Over the last two decades official statistics (which exclude East Jersualem) show that settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza has tended to intensify around the time of peace talks, as Israeli prime ministers have sought to placate right-wingers. The last freeze was brought in by Yitzhak Rabin in 1992, but from the first contained loopholes. It was formally cancelled by Binyamin Netanyahu when he was elected four years later. This in part accounts for the drop in government construction during the '90s. The shift towards private construction reflects a general trend throughout Israel, though it is less pronounced in the settlements than elsewhere.
More Daily charts .. Comment: hey, these are good, neat little comment and chart snacks, as the above, on all different subjects ..
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/display.cfm?id=7933596 ..
you guys, and interestingly Mexico, are still tops on the obesity stakes, but we are gaining.
http://www.economist.com/node/17136088
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